TV Tuning

[Alex]

My local TV station is Granada and Winter Hill is the transmitter site.   The Panasonic telly upstairs is receiving Welsh channels like BBC1 Wales and ITV Wales.  I've tried retuning, going though the process of choosing England, North West, Liverpool from the drop down list - but I still get Wales.  The downstairs telly, also Panasonic receives Granada as it always has.

It's not really a problem as I don't watch live TV, but I'm wondering if this is affecting my ITV x  as I have problems with this catch up service, in that I sometimes get sound, but no picture.

Any ideas anyone, especially Klondy !   

[klondike]

Other than (from memory now as I only used a Freeview set top box at the caravan and Freesat at home) it was necessary to enter a postcode before tuning. 

One question is are both TVs running off one antenna? 

If not try tuning the errant one using the antenna that gives you the right channels then see it if will work on the original one. I imagine in your neck of the woods the Welsh transmitters will be pretty strong. I don't think it's likely that you will be having unusual reception conditions as that usually happens with high air pressure and here its only marginally high right now.

[Alex]

Yes we're pretty close to North Wales, but I don't understand why the old bedroom telly was on Granada, but the smart TV is on Welsh - same aerial.    Do you mean bring the bedroom telly downstairs and try it on the sitting room aerial socket  ?    

Could the fact it's not tuned into properly affect playback on ITV X  ?

[JBR]

I used to take quite an interest on television transmissions, but I'm now really out of date and don't have my old details any more.
I am not familiar now with the precise locations of Winter Hill (which is our nearest) or the, probably several, Welsh transmitters in North Wales.  I say several because, if I remember correctly, due to the hilly nature of the North Wales lands there are, or perhaps were, several low level transmission sites in the area.  Obviously, I have no idea of their precise locations.
Do each of your tellies connect to the same aerial, or do they each have a separate aerial?

Perhaps I could suggest that you try to find the precise locations of your nearest transmitters.  I'm not sure whether BBC and ITV now use the same transmitter sites or whether they still have their own.

Once you have managed to locate those locations, you can consider which your aerial (or aerials) point toward looking at a map with the transmitter locations.  It could be, if both your tellies use the same single aerial, it could be pointing somewhere midway between a Welsh transmitter and Winter Hill.
If you want to use one particular transmitter, say Winter Hill, you could ensure the aerial(s) are pointing in the precise direction.  If there is also a Welsh transmitter in a similar direction, you might be able to change the aerial direction to selectively receive the one you want.  If it is a matter of precise direction, a suitably longer aerial might help, though you should seek advice from the aerial suppliers.

Admittedly I am talking about my much earlier interest I hope it is of some help.  I must admit that although we have two aerials on our chimney stack, they are disconnected as we now use t'internet to obtain TV transmissions.  I'd certainly suggest that as an option if you are struggling.  I hope this is of some help.

[klondike]

Could the fact it's not tuned into properly affect playback on ITV X  ?

Isn't ITVX just an internet based streaming service? If so thhen telly tuning is irrelevant.

Where there are two TV regions being picked up on an antenna thn so far as I remember you just chose which regions you wanted in the TV Guide that you pick from. It may be that at one outlet the one you want isn't strong enough for the TV to use so you don't get it offered as choice. That's why I suggested you try the TV that isn't giving you the program you want on  the other outlet. If you can tune it in there it may or may not work at the first one.

Just using a TV dongle that works off the internet is going to be more reliable and give you more choice.

[JBR]

Yes, ITV X is indeed an internet-based channel.